Quote:The constant Suh to Miami talk is baffling to me and not one reporter has put together a cohesive idea on how it could happen.

 

Miami has the 9th least cap room in the league at roughly $10.5 million. That space isn't going to allow for them to sign Suh, so I'd guess they'd need to at a minimum roughly double the space they have. Mike Wallace is their most expensive player and it sounds like they do want him gone, but he has almost $10 million in dead money this season. He'd only give them an additional $2.5 million in cap space if he was cut. Their other highly paid players either make little sense to cut (Cameron Wake and Mike Pouncey) or have significant dead money attached to them (Brandon Albert, Reshad Jones, Dion Jordan, and Brent Grimes). Dannell Ellerbe ($5.6 million) and Randy Starks ($5 million) are really the only moderately paid players with little dead money and cutting them could give Miami roughly $10.5 million in additional cap space. So to just get to $23 million under they would have to rid themselves of Wallace, Ellerbe, and Starks on top of all the players they cut earlier in the week.

 

Sacrificing your entire WR corps, a starting DT, and a starting LB just to sign Suh makes no sense, especially when you consider they still have to pay an entire draft class. Not to mention that unless they plan on only bringing in Suh and giving Tannehill no weapons outside of Clay, they'll still need to sign more free agents to make up for all the players they cut. Miami is a mediocre team with limited cap space, using all of it to go after one player, albeit a great player, while simultaneously making other positions weaker is nonsensical.

 

Link to their cap situation: http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/miami-dolphins/cap/